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there will be areas such as the use of drones, the use of the cia, which will not be acceptable to the pakistanis. but the americans will go ahead and do it anyway. the pakistanis will continue to object. but hopefully there will be cooperation on the key issue where the two sides can come together, and that is on facilitating these talks with the taliban. most of the taliban is in pakistan. pakistan can do a great deal to help the peace process. >> in france, mohammed merah is suspected of being behind the killings has come out that he was in afghanistan. >> unfortunately, you have the pakistani taliban who are fighting the pakistan army right now. they are becoming kind of a proxy for al qaeda. al qaeda has been decimated, but a lot of their ideas have been taken up by some elements of the pakistani taliban, who are still training a lot of europeans. there was a recent case of several germans who were trained, went back to germany, and the british muslims have been trying to go in there. the pakistan army is dealing with this issue, but it is extremely difficult. the terrain, the bre
there will be areas such as the use of drones, the use of the cia, which will not be acceptable to the pakistanis. but the americans will go ahead and do it anyway. the pakistanis will continue to object. but hopefully there will be cooperation on the key issue where the two sides can come together, and that is on facilitating these talks with the taliban. most of the taliban is in pakistan. pakistan can do a great deal to help the peace process. >> in france, mohammed merah is suspected...
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laura is in cleveland for us tonight at a cleveland market for us tonight, laura. i imagine you've been chatting to shoppers today. what have they been telling you about the state of this race? >> well, it's very interesting. the one thing that you hear above anything else is that people are totally and utterly fed up with the political ads on television. i counted 16 last night. so the major sense of it is we're really waiting for this all to be over. but, yes, people feel flaccid in a way that this is such an important thing and it matters so much, but everyone is taking it very seriously, whether they tell you how they're going to vote or not. the sense you get here is that the economy is performing better than in the rest of the country and that is in part due to the fact that there was a bailout of the auto industry here, a car manufacturing being a big business here, so that's been a cushion, really. unemployment is 7% association that's below the national average. but it's also a very tight race and the president really blew it in the first debate, and since
laura is in cleveland for us tonight at a cleveland market for us tonight, laura. i imagine you've been chatting to shoppers today. what have they been telling you about the state of this race? >> well, it's very interesting. the one thing that you hear above anything else is that people are totally and utterly fed up with the political ads on television. i counted 16 last night. so the major sense of it is we're really waiting for this all to be over. but, yes, people feel flaccid in a...
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words like flicky were used. it's very important to me, it's important to the staff of the children in need. it's a wonderful charity. >> so there were doubts. new research suggests there has been a decline. the polling firm asked two questions. do you trust the bbc? and are you proud of it? and he compared it with figures compared back in 2009 and in both the figures have gone down. in terms of pride, 76% in 2009, 62% now. and do you trust the bbc? again, it's gone down. 62% to 45%, less than half of it. and it's restoring trust in inquiry which was beginning its work. >> i've been a -- >> to police the bbc, many new something. together they might have seen there was a pattern. david, bbc news. >> let's take a look at other news from around the world now. syrian state television is reporting that 10 people have died when a car bomb exploded in the suburb of demascus. it's believed children were among the dead. opposition activists say the syrian air force has launched attack on rebels. it's the largest air strik
words like flicky were used. it's very important to me, it's important to the staff of the children in need. it's a wonderful charity. >> so there were doubts. new research suggests there has been a decline. the polling firm asked two questions. do you trust the bbc? and are you proud of it? and he compared it with figures compared back in 2009 and in both the figures have gone down. in terms of pride, 76% in 2009, 62% now. and do you trust the bbc? again, it's gone down. 62% to 45%, less...
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>> this was a great adventure for all of us. we all went there, not that we were going to get rich or fat or famous or anything like that. we went there because this was an exciting challenge. this was reaching beyond your grasp. this is basically... it's the... even pygmies standing on the shoulders of giants can reach, can see further than the giants can. and it's part of the... whatever you can do or think you can begin it, boldness has power and magic and genius in it. so, we were doing something beyond our reach, and trying to do something bigger than ourselves. >> moyers: a final word about charlie houston. he could be ornery, blunt, and sometimes insufferable, but to the end he was a deeply moral man, and a real patriot. virtually blind in his later years, he would go down to the city park in burlington, stand on a soap box, and speak out against the shameful absence of universal medical care in america. then he would go home and sit quietly while his neighbor, anne-marie littenberg, read to him-- one hour, five days a we
>> this was a great adventure for all of us. we all went there, not that we were going to get rich or fat or famous or anything like that. we went there because this was an exciting challenge. this was reaching beyond your grasp. this is basically... it's the... even pygmies standing on the shoulders of giants can reach, can see further than the giants can. and it's part of the... whatever you can do or think you can begin it, boldness has power and magic and genius in it. so, we were...
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how live challenges us but comes to protect us. very few architects manage to do those things at once. i think it's far better at challenge than comfort. gary is able to do both in equal measure. >> charlie: by challenge you mean what? >> i mean visually to show you something new that you've never seen before. >> charlie: and you would say awe. >> yes, right, exactly. to have you say wow and make you think of the world in a lightly different place but not to make you uncomfortable for doing so. tation an architect like robert stern who is very good but is about comfort, the easy nurturing. >> charlie: dean of the school. >> dean of the school of architecture runs a much broader academic program than that. but his own work. gary is the only one who does both. there's challenge and comfort. >> charlie: there is no phillip johnson, a person who somehow helps architect define its age. >> phillip johnson's greatest achievement i think was in pushing architecture into a central role in the culture. it was greater than his own architectur
how live challenges us but comes to protect us. very few architects manage to do those things at once. i think it's far better at challenge than comfort. gary is able to do both in equal measure. >> charlie: by challenge you mean what? >> i mean visually to show you something new that you've never seen before. >> charlie: and you would say awe. >> yes, right, exactly. to have you say wow and make you think of the world in a lightly different place but not to make you...
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thank you for joining us. back in a moment. >> rose: as the countdown to the academy awards continues, we bring you another oscar moment. >> when you say somebody is a victim of circumstance, it's very... it's wide, you know? it could mean so many things. in her case you think you know what it is until you really go and dive right into it and then you start to realize that it's almost... i always used to say you couldn't put it into a movie because nobody would believe it. this woman's life was just... it's so hard to imagine. i think we all go through tragedies and we all have our skeletons in our closets and we survive things. but what this woman survived was just unbelievable. so i left... i think as much as i possibly could trying to understand how she got to where she did in her life. >> rose: how she got to murder. >> yeah, how she crossed that line. >> rose: it has been called the first battle of the cold war. in june, 1948, soviet dictator josef stalin blocked all land, sea, and rail routes into allied
thank you for joining us. back in a moment. >> rose: as the countdown to the academy awards continues, we bring you another oscar moment. >> when you say somebody is a victim of circumstance, it's very... it's wide, you know? it could mean so many things. in her case you think you know what it is until you really go and dive right into it and then you start to realize that it's almost... i always used to say you couldn't put it into a movie because nobody would believe it. this...
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it's for us to deal with. when we have these questions about what's the right way to provide surgical care, we'd see over and over we haven't provided antibiotics to prevent infections at the right time and the right place. we've missed making sure blood is available at key times. or we had to have people on the team who knew each other's name and were prepared to work as a team together. to solve this problem we found there are simple things you can do. you can make a checklist. taken a idea like from aviation and implement it. >> rose: people at the mayo clinic and the cleveland clinic, the leaders of those two institutions, were vocal in terms of talk about health care reform. are they satisfied with this bill or do they think this bill will do more harm than good? >> i don't know the answer to that. i... and i don't think that's the litmus test here. >> rose: because their reputation... they have reputations of quality care. >> what i had read recently is that both mayo clinic and cleveland clinic had back
it's for us to deal with. when we have these questions about what's the right way to provide surgical care, we'd see over and over we haven't provided antibiotics to prevent infections at the right time and the right place. we've missed making sure blood is available at key times. or we had to have people on the team who knew each other's name and were prepared to work as a team together. to solve this problem we found there are simple things you can do. you can make a checklist. taken a idea...
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george hated that when people used that word. but he got a presidential pardon so he got that wiped autohis record, but fay vincent suspended him. bill writes a great chapter on that in his book. but i remember fay vincent's edict or his decision and said that george steinbrenner never heeded any special warnings because me never heard them. >> rose: (laughs) >> meaning he had no sensor? no governor... >> exactly. and that was another one of the great descriptions of george steinbrenner. >> louie kuehne had another one. he said george was like the "titanic" in search of an iceberg. (laughter) >> rose: so are the yankees the athletic team of the world? >> i don't think there's any question about that. they have the greatest tradition of any team they had when george bought the team and it's even greater now, far greater since he's... since he added another seven world championships to that. and we were talking about this this afternoon about how all the great yankees-- ruth, gehrig, dimaggio, mantle. and you have to put george rig
george hated that when people used that word. but he got a presidential pardon so he got that wiped autohis record, but fay vincent suspended him. bill writes a great chapter on that in his book. but i remember fay vincent's edict or his decision and said that george steinbrenner never heeded any special warnings because me never heard them. >> rose: (laughs) >> meaning he had no sensor? no governor... >> exactly. and that was another one of the great descriptions of george...
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he's won 14 major championships, 13 with the putter he has been using and now he's going to use a new nike putter in this tournament because he says it comes off the face a little better. he's had trouble putting on the slower greens and feels that's cost anymore the past so we wanted to change it. i don't know. it doesn't sound good to me. his whole year has been so much different than what has gone on in the past because of the circumstance that he finds himself in. so i don't think he's going to win this tournament. we talked about this couple months ago before he played in the u.s. open. i think it's problematic. but if ever a course sets up for tiger woods-- and he still is tiger woods, the great, great golfer-- it is st. an druce. >> rose: why is that? >> if he's going to get on this mark with jack nicholas, this is one he can ill afford not to take. >> rose: meaning if he's going to win more majors than jack nicklaus he has to start wining? >> correct and this is the place he can do it. he's won there twice and it's his favorite place on the planet. >> rose: what's with his swi
he's won 14 major championships, 13 with the putter he has been using and now he's going to use a new nike putter in this tournament because he says it comes off the face a little better. he's had trouble putting on the slower greens and feels that's cost anymore the past so we wanted to change it. i don't know. it doesn't sound good to me. his whole year has been so much different than what has gone on in the past because of the circumstance that he finds himself in. so i don't think he's...
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stay with us. even though it is a time of the world cup and also wimbledon, all eyes are on lebron james as the nba free agent season began yesterday. he is the most highly coveted player among a stellar group of all-stars that include dwayne wade and chris bosh. a host of teams are heavily courting the two-time league mvp. yesterday he met with the new york knicks and new jersey nets. today the miami heat and los angeles clippers will make their pitch. joining me now chris broussard, an nba analyst and writer for "espn" the magazine. henry abbott who writes a basketball blog, true hoop. jonathan abrams covers the nba for "the new york times", he returns this morning from cleveland where he reported on the latest developments surrounding lebron. and what might do. from los angeles jim gray, a special broadcast correspondent with the sacramento kings and long time observer of the nba. i am pleased to have all of them here. tell me what you make of all this? you think it is a foregone conclusion, he
stay with us. even though it is a time of the world cup and also wimbledon, all eyes are on lebron james as the nba free agent season began yesterday. he is the most highly coveted player among a stellar group of all-stars that include dwayne wade and chris bosh. a host of teams are heavily courting the two-time league mvp. yesterday he met with the new york knicks and new jersey nets. today the miami heat and los angeles clippers will make their pitch. joining me now chris broussard, an nba...
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it used to be... i'll never forget walking to into the chairman of the board of the dupont company in a meeting after i got elected and i'd meet with the labor union heads and the chamber and all these people and i met with the board of the dupont company and this particular chairman at the time was very upset with me. and i just won and i looked at him and i said "what's your problem, man?" >> rose: you don't want dupont upset with you in delaware." (laughs). >> he said "you're for socialized medicine. you're just like kennedy, you're for socialized medicine." the point i'm making is that the combination of the complexity of health care and the ideological underpinning of the positions each side has taken about what the to do about health care obscured the reality that we've actually through the mechanisms put in place made major savings on the long-term debt. >> rose: but if it's excused the rheal, i would argue... it would suggest to me that somebody hasn't sold it very well. >> well, look, i think
it used to be... i'll never forget walking to into the chairman of the board of the dupont company in a meeting after i got elected and i'd meet with the labor union heads and the chamber and all these people and i met with the board of the dupont company and this particular chairman at the time was very upset with me. and i just won and i looked at him and i said "what's your problem, man?" >> rose: you don't want dupont upset with you in delaware." (laughs). >> he...
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she joins us tonight from new york. dr. rice, an honor to have you on this program. >> pleasure to be with you. tavis: let me ask about the book. there are two versions and there is also a version for young adults. tommy the distinction. -- tell me the distinction. >> the young adult version is more on my earlier life, it is more condensed, it is before going to government for the first time, but both books i hope will be inspirational to young adults and their parents because mine is really a story of the unconditional love of parents and what it can mean. tavis: is there a particular message to young people? >> i want young people to understand, as my parents believed and convinced me, you may not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control how you react to them. education is the key to being able to do that. my parents believed education was really armor against desegregation and prejudice in birmingham, and i believe that today, that education can be armor against anything that you face. tavis: to questio
she joins us tonight from new york. dr. rice, an honor to have you on this program. >> pleasure to be with you. tavis: let me ask about the book. there are two versions and there is also a version for young adults. tommy the distinction. -- tell me the distinction. >> the young adult version is more on my earlier life, it is more condensed, it is before going to government for the first time, but both books i hope will be inspirational to young adults and their parents because mine...
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danny said he could use it. >> that is so unfair! >> i'll tell you what's unfair is them not letting me play in their card game. i know about the records. >> you think he buys records from mike siegel. >> saving up for a nose job. >> what! >> brat. >> nobody in this house is geing a noise job, you got that. >> rose: peter king is here, writer for "sports illustrated," and the popular column "monday morning quarterback." he has a new book that chronicles everything from football to... i am pleased to have peter king back at this table. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. appreciate it. >> rose: tell me what the state of the nfl is, in your view. >> i've covered the nfl for 25 years, charlie, and one of the things i've always noticed as it's gotten bigger and bigger and bigger was a burjening game, you know, comes burgeoning problems. and that's what they have right now. and as we sit here, i don't think anybody knows for sure whether they're going to be playing football in 2011 or not. there's a work stoppage that i believe is on the hori
danny said he could use it. >> that is so unfair! >> i'll tell you what's unfair is them not letting me play in their card game. i know about the records. >> you think he buys records from mike siegel. >> saving up for a nose job. >> what! >> brat. >> nobody in this house is geing a noise job, you got that. >> rose: peter king is here, writer for "sports illustrated," and the popular column "monday morning quarterback." he has...
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i wasn't sure who had us. several weeks earlier some aid workers had been shot in that area as they drove down the road. and, you know, i really didn't know what was going to happen. late that afternoon, we met the commander who kidnapped us and he promised good treatment. he sort of played the moderate to win our trust and i... you know, i... at that point i was trying to keep us alive. and throughout this, the biggest threat was to the two afghans who work with me that day. i always felt they would be the first ones to be killed, not me. >> rose: because that's been their practice? >> that's been their practice. and then one of the things i discovered was that... and i've had americans say "why aren't there more afghans fighting the taliban?" and the reality is, there are many more afghans fighting the taliban than american troops. roughly five times as many afghan soldiers and police splen died as american soldiers in afghanistan fighting the taliban since 2001. and our captors despised the two afghans who
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use that money to pay for tax breaks for the middle class. but the business community has been talking about how horrible it is, having a tax cut when the economy is so fragile, robbing the economy of its recovery. there are a lot of democrats who are boggling. we will see if they can deliver. i do not think they can deliver the promise. >> actually, a former member of the obama administration drew the same conclusion. >> whether we are talking about rahm emanuel or peter orszag, [inaudible] the rights and in "the new york times" calling for an extension of the tax cuts that the rich has. >> this is something that the president can draw a line on. he does have a veto power. he can decide whether or not to extend the tax cuts for the rich for a year or something like that, or not. it seems to me the best thing to do would be to pull it back for those people who make less than $200,000, and will veto anything that does not help them. >> george stephanopoulos tried to nail him down on that question, but he said he would not necessarily veto. >>
use that money to pay for tax breaks for the middle class. but the business community has been talking about how horrible it is, having a tax cut when the economy is so fragile, robbing the economy of its recovery. there are a lot of democrats who are boggling. we will see if they can deliver. i do not think they can deliver the promise. >> actually, a former member of the obama administration drew the same conclusion. >> whether we are talking about rahm emanuel or peter orszag,...
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i wish that trickle-down effect would trickle on down to us. because everyone says that the economy is getting better, but it is i guess for those that have the money to sit back and weather the storm. for those that don't have the economic well withall to sit back and weather out that storm, it's kind of hard. we live in the day to day realities of life, you know trying to pay bills, trying to eat, trying to feed our families, trying to clothe our families. you know, i don't really pay much attention to what the experts say as far as the forecasting of the economy is. i look at the people around me and i see, are they eating? are they paying bills? are they getting evicted? and that's my barometer of just how well the economy is doing. if i could, if i could just simply wave a magic wand and put all the politicians in the shoes of the average american. let them wonder how they're going to pay next month's rent or mortgage. i think once they saw just how hard it was for the average person, i think they'd have a whole different outtake on govern
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your last pick, aem, tell us about that. >> i'm a bull on gold. i think there's another leg to the gold rally given our deficit spending and free money ways here. and so i think it's a canadian company, the largest growing and it has one of the lowest cost production profiles. they have five new mines that have come on stream and they've got six operating mines following 75% growth this year. so again, i think this is a stock that people -- want exposure to gold, a good one to own. >> gharib: howard, do you own any of the stocks personally or any disclosures to make? >> i own all of the stocks and my fund owns all of the stocks. >> gharib: okay, real quickly then, it looks like the theme of all of the stocks that you're talking about, these are large cap u.s. based -- >> i lost you, susie. >> hudson: a bit of a problem with susie. we appreciate your time, howard ward. we apologize for the difficulty report on this friday. i'm tom hudson, and we'll see you right back here next week. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was ma
your last pick, aem, tell us about that. >> i'm a bull on gold. i think there's another leg to the gold rally given our deficit spending and free money ways here. and so i think it's a canadian company, the largest growing and it has one of the lowest cost production profiles. they have five new mines that have come on stream and they've got six operating mines following 75% growth this year. so again, i think this is a stock that people -- want exposure to gold, a good one to own....
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he joins us from cleveland. great to see you, rick, of course we're talking about the defection of lebron james to miami, from where you are tonight in cleveland about a year ago, most employee changes though clearly aren't this high profile so how is cleveland one year later? >> cleveland one year later is just fine. fred-- the lawyer involved with the greater cleveland partnership says to us that $7 billion in construction happening, not bad for a middle market emerging from a recession. $600 million casino down the street, owned by the guy who owns the cavaliers. 550 million dollar medical part, convention center being done. the flats being redeveloped, $250 million phase one hotel, retail projects. international investment through cleveland incentive program. they're doing just fine without lebron james. >> tom: so these are all long-term projects. it takes planning to get those up and running, a lot of construction to happen. what about the ripple effect though of losing a talent, not just in the nba but an
he joins us from cleveland. great to see you, rick, of course we're talking about the defection of lebron james to miami, from where you are tonight in cleveland about a year ago, most employee changes though clearly aren't this high profile so how is cleveland one year later? >> cleveland one year later is just fine. fred-- the lawyer involved with the greater cleveland partnership says to us that $7 billion in construction happening, not bad for a middle market emerging from a...
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. >> tom: darren joins us now. microphone as lawed in the high court but no video camerasment darren, does this all boil down to an argue over a tax which is used to a fund a government versus what i want to call a penalty which would be an economic punishment? >> it does. because they want to make sure that basically, you know, if you are unhappy with your tax, you are not going to sue the supreme court. you're to the going to end up in the supreme court. this is their way to kind of narrow the exemption to this law that is designed to protect our tax system. >> tom: so we can call it a penalty hear and if we do that does the court seem inclined with what you heard today to rule that they don't have to wait until 2014 to decide the fate? >> this is their march madness. i really thought that they were going for it they really seemed to think that, and this is the kind of case if you are a just fis you live for it it's got everything. it's a huge constitutional issue. it is a national issue that needs to be resolved
. >> tom: darren joins us now. microphone as lawed in the high court but no video camerasment darren, does this all boil down to an argue over a tax which is used to a fund a government versus what i want to call a penalty which would be an economic punishment? >> it does. because they want to make sure that basically, you know, if you are unhappy with your tax, you are not going to sue the supreme court. you're to the going to end up in the supreme court. this is their way to kind...
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with a long weekend ahead of us, we'll see if any merger deals are hammered out over the holiday. we have learned the pursuit of bio-pharmaceutical company amylin is heating up. according to bloomberg, drug makers merck and sanofi have made initial buy-out offers worth at least $25 per share. but the market clearly expects the bidding to go higher. ina soft market today, amylin found buyers, pushing the stock up more than 8% to almost $28 per share well above the reported first offer price of $25. amylin already said no to bristol-myers squibb's $22 a share offer. don't except a deal for talbots. the women's clothing retailer ended buyout talks with its second largest shareholder, sycamore partners, sending the stock plummeting. shares lost 41% of their value, dropping below $2 per share. sycamore offered talbots $3.05 per share, more than double tonight's price. the firm said it remains open to a deal with the private equity firm can get financing and close the deal. with the end of these exclusive talks, talbots is free to look for other options. with europe in a recession and c
with a long weekend ahead of us, we'll see if any merger deals are hammered out over the holiday. we have learned the pursuit of bio-pharmaceutical company amylin is heating up. according to bloomberg, drug makers merck and sanofi have made initial buy-out offers worth at least $25 per share. but the market clearly expects the bidding to go higher. ina soft market today, amylin found buyers, pushing the stock up more than 8% to almost $28 per share well above the reported first offer price of...
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we wear a different uniform and use slightly different language. but at the end of the day i'm using a lot of the same skills as when i was wearing a u.s. army uniform. >> tom: still ahead: from teaching to healthcare, when it comes to hiring, some industries are finding that veterans bring the right stuff to the job. >> susie: 100,000 troops are coming home from iraq and afghanistan this year. sure, some will stay in the military, but many will be searching for civilian jobs. now, transitioning to corporate america hasn't been easy for many veterans. sylvia hall takes us to a recruiting firm helping veterans tackle the challenge. >> reporter: in any military unit anywhere in the world, you'll find a range of jobs as diverse as the people who hold them. from engineers to supply chain managers, to chefs, nurses and lawyers, america's troops can do a lot. ravaire prince spent 12 years as an electrician in the navy. he's been deployed across the globe, from japan to iraq. now it's time to bring those skills home to a civilian job. it's a bigger task t
we wear a different uniform and use slightly different language. but at the end of the day i'm using a lot of the same skills as when i was wearing a u.s. army uniform. >> tom: still ahead: from teaching to healthcare, when it comes to hiring, some industries are finding that veterans bring the right stuff to the job. >> susie: 100,000 troops are coming home from iraq and afghanistan this year. sure, some will stay in the military, but many will be searching for civilian jobs. now,...
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join pg us ing us to talk how h preparing, president and ceo of the cleveland clinic. toby, nice to have you back on the program. >> thanks for having me. >> the big worry is what will it do to cost and what does it do to cost for the cleveland clinic? >> well, we know and have known this for several years we have to reduce the cost of health care, not just for the cleveland clinic but across the country. we look at it as a patriotic duty to take down the cost of healthcare because it's beginning to jeopardize things like education that are important. so we have been working hard to reduce our cost, and we've done several things, for example, over the last couple years we've taken $180 million out of our purchasing and consolidated services that made them higher quality and lower cost and more efficient, but all of that still means that we're going to be paid less by our private insurers, we'll be paid less by medicare for what we do and we still don't have medicaid extension in the state of ohio, and we're concerned that we need to take our cost down still further. so
join pg us ing us to talk how h preparing, president and ceo of the cleveland clinic. toby, nice to have you back on the program. >> thanks for having me. >> the big worry is what will it do to cost and what does it do to cost for the cleveland clinic? >> well, we know and have known this for several years we have to reduce the cost of health care, not just for the cleveland clinic but across the country. we look at it as a patriotic duty to take down the cost of healthcare...
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coming up, he'll tell us what stocks he's buying. >> susie: b.p. today released its own findings about what went wrong on the deepwater horizon rig. the oil giant takes some responsibility for the deadly disaster, but says it was a chain of events involving multiple companies that led to the accident. b.p. began its investigation immediately after the explosion and released the results today in a 200-page report. stephanie dhue has more. >> reporter: today's report says the problem started with a bad cement job that caused dangerous gases to leak into the well undetected. crew members misread tests and thought the well was under control, and didn't act until it was too late. the blowout preventer, which should have sealed the well, failed. b.p. took responsibility for its decisions on the rig, but also blamed halliburton for the cement job and rig operator transocean, which maintained the blowout preventer. transocean called b.p.'s report a "self-serving attempt to conceal... b.p.'s fatally flawed well design." b.p. says the well design is sound an
coming up, he'll tell us what stocks he's buying. >> susie: b.p. today released its own findings about what went wrong on the deepwater horizon rig. the oil giant takes some responsibility for the deadly disaster, but says it was a chain of events involving multiple companies that led to the accident. b.p. began its investigation immediately after the explosion and released the results today in a 200-page report. stephanie dhue has more. >> reporter: today's report says the problem...
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a truck driver took pity on us and brought us here . >> reporter: when the flood came i was preparing meals for the children, i just ran with them but we were robbed. i still don't know what happened to my husband. >> reporter: it's a pretty grim camp wedged between a busy road and the canal and it's open to the elements. it's also a very unhealthy place. people are sick. there's no hygiene to speak of. today save the children warned that if this health crisis in sindh is not tackled fast, millions of children will contract deadly diseases. >> sreenivasan: more than 1,500 people have died in the pakistan floods, and the u.n. estimates as many as seven million need assistance. today, a u.s. navy ship carrying helicopters and 1,000 u.s. marines arrived off karachi, to boost relief efforts. hundreds of angry villagers in eastern afghanistan protested today, after an overnight raid by u.s. troops. protesters blocked a main road for several hours, burned trucks, and shouted "death to the united states." the villagers accused the soldiers of storming a family home and killing three innocent
a truck driver took pity on us and brought us here . >> reporter: when the flood came i was preparing meals for the children, i just ran with them but we were robbed. i still don't know what happened to my husband. >> reporter: it's a pretty grim camp wedged between a busy road and the canal and it's open to the elements. it's also a very unhealthy place. people are sick. there's no hygiene to speak of. today save the children warned that if this health crisis in sindh is not...
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you use words like "modest" and "fragile"? or what words do you use? >> well, i did an assessment myself in september for general petraeus and i pretty much agree with the content of the report. it's unmistakable that the momentum is beginning to switch to our favor. we've seen erosion of taliban will, we listened to them everyday on their radio traffic, we interrogate them on a regular basis and we have begown see that change. plus, every battalion and brigade commander that i spoke to had evidence of taliban that wanted to cross back over and reintegrate into afghan society under general petraeus' program, it's called the afghan local police. now, there are hundreds of those. hopefully they'll grow into the thousands like it did in iraq. that's tangible evidence of a shift. the other shift is that we are literally in many areas where we have not been before and we have secured them and we have removed the taliban from the throat of the people. challenges lie ahead in terms of governance, to be sure, i agree with that. and also i fundamentally believe
you use words like "modest" and "fragile"? or what words do you use? >> well, i did an assessment myself in september for general petraeus and i pretty much agree with the content of the report. it's unmistakable that the momentum is beginning to switch to our favor. we've seen erosion of taliban will, we listened to them everyday on their radio traffic, we interrogate them on a regular basis and we have begown see that change. plus, every battalion and brigade...
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once the president announced hamp, they wrote us, our call volume exploded. wells fargo has yet to respond at all. so we asked bank of america trisha who has been modifying loans for four years, was her bank overwhelmed? >> no. we take control of our cat calls and customers and try and get the help they need and be the one point of contact for them. >> reporter: but then, why do so few hamp applicants get modified? for one thing, customers regularly misrepresent their finances when they first apply over the phone, says maron, like the very customers we spoke with. >> you have a discrepancy between what the customer stated up front and what we were able to verify in those documents. >> reporter: we relayed the response to lorraine, awaiting for foreclosure, don madden rejected for hamp. both vehemently denied the bank's claim, saying they can prove they submitted everything in print right away, accurately. >> absolutely. i have the paperwork right here. >> reporter: last week, bank of america told madden his mortgage had been lowered 40%. the brauns, however,
once the president announced hamp, they wrote us, our call volume exploded. wells fargo has yet to respond at all. so we asked bank of america trisha who has been modifying loans for four years, was her bank overwhelmed? >> no. we take control of our cat calls and customers and try and get the help they need and be the one point of contact for them. >> reporter: but then, why do so few hamp applicants get modified? for one thing, customers regularly misrepresent their finances when...
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margaret, good to have you with us. tell us more about this reported assassination plot. >> warner: it was very strange to watch this report on state- controlled television out of odessa in ukraine centering on an apartment complex where they said they nabbed several men involved in this bomb plot against putin. two of the men in different scenes were paraded before the cameras and confessing to having been sent to do this deed by this chech interorist leader who has claimed responsibility for successful bombings here in moscow the last couple of years. there were immediately comments on the web and elsewhere about how the videotaped confessions looked fake. that's in the eye of the beholder. certainly as commentators noted the timing was convenient. these men were supposedly arrested two or three weeks ago but announced today. as you may recall putin first made his reputation on the suppressing, the battling against the chechyn separatist movement starting in the early '90s. it also reinforces his theme as sort of stro
margaret, good to have you with us. tell us more about this reported assassination plot. >> warner: it was very strange to watch this report on state- controlled television out of odessa in ukraine centering on an apartment complex where they said they nabbed several men involved in this bomb plot against putin. two of the men in different scenes were paraded before the cameras and confessing to having been sent to do this deed by this chech interorist leader who has claimed...
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it's a line of argument some of his critics used. the truth she has been through the campaign and as a president, somebody who can rise to the moment of a big speech. and he has given memorable speeches. i think one of the things they've learned is there are limits to that, that the bully pulpit may not be as strong as some might and think there is more to it than giving a speech. i think you saw in the deliberation deliberations over the afghanistan situation in which the president took a lot of criticisms throughout that process of whether he was dith or delaying or indecisive but came to to a conclusion that drew bipartisan praiseand support. not just for the speech but the decision he made. again, we don't know how the policy will work in practice, but the way he dealt with it says he is willing to do more than just give speeches. >> lehrer: we'll get back to the speech thing in a moment, but what about the point that dan just raised, the president has now said-- going back to the bombing crisis for a moment-- the president has n
it's a line of argument some of his critics used. the truth she has been through the campaign and as a president, somebody who can rise to the moment of a big speech. and he has given memorable speeches. i think one of the things they've learned is there are limits to that, that the bully pulpit may not be as strong as some might and think there is more to it than giving a speech. i think you saw in the deliberation deliberations over the afghanistan situation in which the president took a lot...
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if they help us generate more profit, they get paid more for it. we have 25 pieceworkers last year make over $100,000. the average worker makes $68,000 a year. but note that stropki says the bonus is tied to performance. that's a rating, given by your supervisor. those who rate very low over a long period of time, either quit or can be fired. >> reporter: the rating is another form of internal competition. and yet one of the things you're rated on: your cooperativeness. journalist frank koller: >> i think what lincoln electric is doing is striking a balance between competition at the individual level so that each individual worker is trying to do the most and as a result earn the most for himself, and the need for cooperation where each worker is also very, very clear that he can't, or she can't work on their own, they need to work together at the same time. >> reporter: stropki says cooperation scaled new heights during the crisis year, when lincoln's sales dropped by a third. >> we had to pull out all the stops based on the severity of the recess
if they help us generate more profit, they get paid more for it. we have 25 pieceworkers last year make over $100,000. the average worker makes $68,000 a year. but note that stropki says the bonus is tied to performance. that's a rating, given by your supervisor. those who rate very low over a long period of time, either quit or can be fired. >> reporter: the rating is another form of internal competition. and yet one of the things you're rated on: your cooperativeness. journalist frank...
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either we will be able to use it to stop the flow, or we will be able to use it to capture almost all of the oil until the relief well is done. but we're not going to know for certain which approach makes sense until additional data is in. >> reporter: at the same time, the president cautioned that the work is far from over. >> i think it's important that we don't get ahead of ourselves here. you know, one of the problems with having this camera down there is that, when the oil stops gushing, everybody feels like we're done. and we're not. we won't be done until we actually know that we've killed the well and that we have a permanent solution in place. >> reporter: for its part, b.p. said it was "encouraged". it said pressure is slowly rising inside the 75-ton cap, and there's no evidence that it's causing any new leaks under the sea floor. in a conference call, company vice president kent wells said, "the pressures we've seen so far are consistent with the engineering analysis work that b.p. has done. it's been a very steady build." still, the oil giant was keeping a close watch on t
either we will be able to use it to stop the flow, or we will be able to use it to capture almost all of the oil until the relief well is done. but we're not going to know for certain which approach makes sense until additional data is in. >> reporter: at the same time, the president cautioned that the work is far from over. >> i think it's important that we don't get ahead of ourselves here. you know, one of the problems with having this camera down there is that, when the oil...
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tell us where you are! >> reporter: democratic senator chuck schumer of new york said boehner's new plan was even worse than the original. >> it wouldn't just make a default likely, it will guarantee a default. so the boehner proposal says we won't default now, but we promise you we will default by january. it is an absurd, absurd proposition. >> reporter: the senate's top republican mitch mcconnell accused democrats of standing in the way of progress. >> rather than working these last few days towards a solution to this crisis the way the republican majority in the house has, the democratic majority here in the senate has been wasting precious time rounding up no votes to keep this crisis alive. >> reporter: looking for a way to break the stalemate, the president-- as he did in his speech monday night-- called on americans to make their voices heard. >> if you want to see a bipartisan compromise-- a bill that can pass both houses of congress and that i can sign-- let your members of congress know. make a p
tell us where you are! >> reporter: democratic senator chuck schumer of new york said boehner's new plan was even worse than the original. >> it wouldn't just make a default likely, it will guarantee a default. so the boehner proposal says we won't default now, but we promise you we will default by january. it is an absurd, absurd proposition. >> reporter: the senate's top republican mitch mcconnell accused democrats of standing in the way of progress. >> rather than...
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what can you tell us about the scope of the damage so far? >> well first you need to understand that the yellowstone is the largest undamned river in the united states. it's one of those wonderful blue ribbon streams that we have in montana, some of the finest fisheries anywhere in the world. this pipeline spilled into the yellow stone river near billings montana. it spilled into the river when it was running at near record high. we heard from some industry people that said that's great because the solution to pollution is dilution and these 42,000 gallons that's a very small part of this raging river. well the problem is that the river in enact was going over its banks at the time that the pipeline burst (inaudible) and fell into these lowland, these wetteland areas, these primordial areas where the mike robes feed the insects and the insects feed the reptiles and the reptiles of course feed the (inaudible) the river. now that the river is is going down this thick (no audio) is along those wettelands with those cotton woods and aspens in far
what can you tell us about the scope of the damage so far? >> well first you need to understand that the yellowstone is the largest undamned river in the united states. it's one of those wonderful blue ribbon streams that we have in montana, some of the finest fisheries anywhere in the world. this pipeline spilled into the yellow stone river near billings montana. it spilled into the river when it was running at near record high. we heard from some industry people that said that's great...
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but a decision was made, probably correctly that they had nothing more to tell us. as mark said we have been watching them for ten years and meanwhile to be able to get these four other people back or at least to get them released that does serve our national interest because either they were helping us or they were heroic figures and so you will encourage more people to be like that. >> okay. >> and 60 grande year for each of them. you want them to be on scholarship here, you know, let them live in russia. >> lehrer: under their scholarship . >> mark, president obama in nevada and missouri the last couple of days, big political stuff, reports today he's turned up the rhetoric a little bit, the political rhetoric, how he is doing? >> well, i think the era the are of the new tone in washington is over. democrats who are frustrated, nervous and scared stiff about november are thrilled with the new president. this is-- . >> lehrer: they want him -- >> they want him to generate enthusiasm, intensity and passion in the ranks. there is no question that i has been faulted
but a decision was made, probably correctly that they had nothing more to tell us. as mark said we have been watching them for ten years and meanwhile to be able to get these four other people back or at least to get them released that does serve our national interest because either they were helping us or they were heroic figures and so you will encourage more people to be like that. >> okay. >> and 60 grande year for each of them. you want them to be on scholarship here, you know,...
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that kind of dug us into this hole. didn't it? >> well, it created the expansion that preceded this. no, it really didn't dig us into this hole. this is... you can't say that the hole was created by overspending. the problem here, the deep recession was created by the reckless behavior of large financial institutions and the unwillingness of the government to regulate them which created the financial meltdown. >> ifill: briefly, paul, what is the quickest way out of the hole? >> well, i'm not smart enough to that know that but i do know that the american public, it's very hard to drive the optimism out of the american public. even if this these kinds of times we are an optimistic people. we take these surveys all the time. we're beginning to see some doubts creep in. i would say whether your own financial future will be okay and the financial future of the country will be okay. most people still think yes but there are some doubts. >> paul taylor of the pew center and robert shapiro, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> wood
that kind of dug us into this hole. didn't it? >> well, it created the expansion that preceded this. no, it really didn't dig us into this hole. this is... you can't say that the hole was created by overspending. the problem here, the deep recession was created by the reckless behavior of large financial institutions and the unwillingness of the government to regulate them which created the financial meltdown. >> ifill: briefly, paul, what is the quickest way out of the hole?...
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can you help us?" they wanted to bury their friends with a lot of dignity and beauty. >> reporter: but there was more than just sadness. in even in the face of death--in the hospital, there was community. >> every other sunday, there is a party on ward 5-b. the hostess is a travel agent named rita berger, but the nurses and the patients know her as rita rocket. >> she came on an easter to offer to do an easter brunch. it went so well it turned into like she would come on sundays. >> reporter: those kind of experiences produced a sense of camaraderie that persists even today, says weissman. >> nowadays, i'll often walk down the street and i'll recognize a face from that era and there's a kind of a moment of acknowledgement whether i know this person or not, that we're survivors. that we were here before, and we're here now. and that's not that many of us here, and there's a kind of a very bittersweet felling when one has that experience on the street. >> reporter: weissman's film shows on the pbs progra
can you help us?" they wanted to bury their friends with a lot of dignity and beauty. >> reporter: but there was more than just sadness. in even in the face of death--in the hospital, there was community. >> every other sunday, there is a party on ward 5-b. the hostess is a travel agent named rita berger, but the nurses and the patients know her as rita rocket. >> she came on an easter to offer to do an easter brunch. it went so well it turned into like she would come on...
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times story about steroid use several years ago. in 2005, if you remember the hearing with mark maguire. after that hearing, congress told major league baseball you need to look into this problem and get your house in order. so major league baseball commissioned a study by former senate majority leader george mitchell to basically look at drugs in baseball, banned drugs in baseball. the trainer was one of the witnesses that they found, the federal government had been prosecuting another man who was a steroid supplier. they learned of the trainer's role and his connection with clemons and andy pettitte. that's how clemons wound up in the mitchell report which was released in 2007 >> suarez: in the testimony before congress, a lot of doubt was cast on the stories of several players. you mentioned mark maguire but also sammy sosa, rafael palmeiro. how come roger clemons was charged with lying to congress? >> well, you know, to use maguire as an example. maguire, he just basically took the fifth amendment. he didn't say anything to cong
times story about steroid use several years ago. in 2005, if you remember the hearing with mark maguire. after that hearing, congress told major league baseball you need to look into this problem and get your house in order. so major league baseball commissioned a study by former senate majority leader george mitchell to basically look at drugs in baseball, banned drugs in baseball. the trainer was one of the witnesses that they found, the federal government had been prosecuting another man who...
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thank you all three for being with us. greg jaffe, to you first. remind us what general petraeus' leadership style is. >> well, you know, he's very good politically. i mean, one of the things i think he did a great job with and i think pete mansoor can talk about this in depth is establish a relationship with p.m. maliki that wasn't always a comfortable and happy relationship. but i think he was able to push maliki, along with the u.s. ambassador there, ryan rocker, to really do things that were both in the iraqis interest and in the broader u.s. interest. so that's critical. he's also very good at getting a few big ideas out to the troops. getting their sort of buy-in and getting this kind of sprawling force moving in the same direction. >> woodruff: kimberly kagan, what would you too old that? what will he bring that's different? >> he's also an energetic commander like general mcchrystal was. the headquarters a year ago was energized by general mcchrystal. i think general petraeus will bring that. but he will also bring a fount of experience fro
thank you all three for being with us. greg jaffe, to you first. remind us what general petraeus' leadership style is. >> well, you know, he's very good politically. i mean, one of the things i think he did a great job with and i think pete mansoor can talk about this in depth is establish a relationship with p.m. maliki that wasn't always a comfortable and happy relationship. but i think he was able to push maliki, along with the u.s. ambassador there, ryan rocker, to really do things...
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and i'm confident that although our challenges are not yet behind us that the future before us is bright. >> ifill: later the president spoke to u.s. troops he plans to address the american people from afghanistan at 7:30 eastern time tonight. for more on all this, we turn to patrick quinn, kabul bureau chief for the associated press joining us now by telephone. patrick, when did you learn that a presidential visit was imminent? >> well, we only found out just shortly before he arrived. there were rumors he was coming. but it was a complete surprise, i think, to almost everybody in afghanistan that barack obama decided to come here on the anniversary of osama bin laden's death to sign this agreement. >> ifill: tell us what you can about this agreement. how significant is it? >> well, the deal is not... the deal is significant in that it defines or broadly defines the u.s. presence here after 2014 when most troops are scheduled to leave here, most combat troops. a lot of afghans have been concerned about how the united states will remain here. this agreement basically says that we commit
and i'm confident that although our challenges are not yet behind us that the future before us is bright. >> ifill: later the president spoke to u.s. troops he plans to address the american people from afghanistan at 7:30 eastern time tonight. for more on all this, we turn to patrick quinn, kabul bureau chief for the associated press joining us now by telephone. patrick, when did you learn that a presidential visit was imminent? >> well, we only found out just shortly before he...
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it probably shouldn't have surprised us. we have seen over and over again that when drugs are approved or administered because they change some laboratory measure, that doesn't always translate into a clinical benefit. and i think this is a wake-up call for the regulatory community that we really have to demand that drugs have improvements in clipical outcome not just laboratory measures. >> warner: so you're saying this drug did boost your level of h.d.l., so if you went into the doctor's office and had a blood test, they would say, "oh, your h.d.l. level is nice and high," that that was false reassurance that it didn't change the health outcome at all. >> it did not. and we have seen this kind of problem occur over and over again over last decade, that drugs that make biochemical measures better don't always make people better. we really have to demand a higher quality of evidence. >> warner: now, does this cast any doubt on the underlying thesis, that in fact at least if you have a naturally occurring high level of h.d.l.
it probably shouldn't have surprised us. we have seen over and over again that when drugs are approved or administered because they change some laboratory measure, that doesn't always translate into a clinical benefit. and i think this is a wake-up call for the regulatory community that we really have to demand that drugs have improvements in clipical outcome not just laboratory measures. >> warner: so you're saying this drug did boost your level of h.d.l., so if you went into the...
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best to use an ear piece. best to use it on speaker mode. best to use text. if you're driving, best to use hands-free. and not to put the cell phone, you know, right adjacent to your brain. the other thing to be aware of is that we haven't had any good studys in the pediatric population. a child's skull is much thinner. the amount of radiation that goes into the pediatric brain is much higher than in the adult. so we should be cautious with how we allow our children to use the cell phone. they're going to be the ones using it at a much younger age and using it over a much longer duration. >> brown: just briefly... i'm sorry. just briefly, i can't resist asking you, dr. black. what about you yourself. does this change how you use the cell phone? >> i use a cell phone. but i always use it either on speaker mode or use it with an ear piece or text. i don't put it next to my brain. you know, i think to also just to put this in context for your viewers, you know, the risk of developing brain cancer is about 6 per 100,000 in a population per year. so even if the ri
best to use an ear piece. best to use it on speaker mode. best to use text. if you're driving, best to use hands-free. and not to put the cell phone, you know, right adjacent to your brain. the other thing to be aware of is that we haven't had any good studys in the pediatric population. a child's skull is much thinner. the amount of radiation that goes into the pediatric brain is much higher than in the adult. so we should be cautious with how we allow our children to use the cell phone....
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peter bergen joins us now. welcome. >> thank you, margaret. >> warner: so in all this reporting you've been doing over a decade and in preparation for this book, what was the most startling, telling discovery you made about the hunt for this man. >> one of the most startling anecdotes that i found in the course of reporting the book was michael morel, the deputy director of the cia, several months before the operation went down, went to president obama and said to him that the circumstantial case that iraq had weapons of pass destruction was better than the circumstantial case that bin laden was living in abbottabad. so i think that is, you know, that shows the level of uncertainty that existed about the intelligencement and for people who-- we have heard this week a number of people saying essentially anyone would have made this decision. that's very easy to say sort of post facto when you know how the operation turned out. another similar kind of anecdote, michael morel and his boss, leon panetta the head of
peter bergen joins us now. welcome. >> thank you, margaret. >> warner: so in all this reporting you've been doing over a decade and in preparation for this book, what was the most startling, telling discovery you made about the hunt for this man. >> one of the most startling anecdotes that i found in the course of reporting the book was michael morel, the deputy director of the cia, several months before the operation went down, went to president obama and said to him that the...
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ifill: here at the table with us. >> ifill: here at the table with us-- where they will be all night tonight-- are syndicated columnist mark shields and new york times" columnist david brooks. mark shields, what is the path to 270, that magic total of electoral votes that somebody needs in order to become president of the united states. >> all barack obama has to do is win the states he won last time. everyone of the states that battle ground state is state he carried last time. we'll find out. last time he had advantage in a strange way. that was hillary clinton because he was able to organize in those states in the primaries and establish an organization and establish financial advantage which held him far over john mccain. but i think, you know, i think that they know these states. he's campaigned in them before. that's his strength. for mitt romney obviously it's capitalizing on the economic discontent, the economic hurt still in the country, the disappointment and the progress to recovery. >> ifill: david, what is your view? what do they each need to do? >> david: i'm focusing o
ifill: here at the table with us. >> ifill: here at the table with us-- where they will be all night tonight-- are syndicated columnist mark shields and new york times" columnist david brooks. mark shields, what is the path to 270, that magic total of electoral votes that somebody needs in order to become president of the united states. >> all barack obama has to do is win the states he won last time. everyone of the states that battle ground state is state he carried last...
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they don't take care of us. so we better feed ourselves. now through porous borders and the defectors from north korea, maybe up to 20,000 in south koreas, basically north koreans are learning that they have to change. >> warner: a lot to walk. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: again, the other major developments of the day. home prices rose again in july, thanks in part to a federal tax credit for home buyers. but consumer confidence was down this month to the lowest point since february. and former president jimmy carter was taken to a cleveland hospital after he got sick on a flight from atlanta. a grandson said he had a "stomach bug." and to hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: if you're weighing whether to rent or buy a home, we rounded up online calculators to help you sort through the pros and cons. that's on the rundown. judy woodruff talks to the co- author of a new book that looks at the "up" side of earmarks. are they good for u.s. democracy? >> brown: and
they don't take care of us. so we better feed ourselves. now through porous borders and the defectors from north korea, maybe up to 20,000 in south koreas, basically north koreans are learning that they have to change. >> warner: a lot to walk. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: again, the other major developments of the day. home prices rose again in july, thanks in part to a federal tax credit for home buyers. but consumer confidence was down this...
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bnsf, the engine that connects us. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: the president accused the republicans of being fiscally irresponsible, but admitted that his own policies have not worked as quickly as hoped. congressional correspondent kwame holman reports. >> we got some business to do today. >> reporter: just eight weeks from election day, the president made his pitch in cleveland today to help the sputtering u.s. economy >> that means making long-term investments in education and clean energy; in basic research, technology, and infrastructure. >> reporter: and he also took a stand against extending the bush era tax cuts for the top 2% of earners, setting up a pre- election fight with repub
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well, tell us... it will come. >> what's interesting about virginia, this is obviously a state as gwen and judy have been mentioning, they've kept the polls open in a lot of places where there were still long lines. mitt romney was leading and the last results i was just looking at that were coming this in fairly slowly not that much returns are in. it's a very, very key state. >> brown: there it is. romney is leading 51% to 47%. gary johnson the libertarian candidate 1%. this is another state we're keeping an eye on because the former congressman, virgil goodee. >> brown: we haven't discussed that name yesterday. >> the constitution party candidate from virginia. he is expected to pull a little bit of support in southwest virginia. this is an area the republicans were concerned about because that could pull some support away from mitt romney while some of the lib tear yab support pulled support away from mitt romney it's such a competitive state. the president won this state by more than six percenta
well, tell us... it will come. >> what's interesting about virginia, this is obviously a state as gwen and judy have been mentioning, they've kept the polls open in a lot of places where there were still long lines. mitt romney was leading and the last results i was just looking at that were coming this in fairly slowly not that much returns are in. it's a very, very key state. >> brown: there it is. romney is leading 51% to 47%. gary johnson the libertarian candidate 1%. this is...
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can you help us?" and the answer is yes, we can help, but it's going to take a different path, not the one we've been on, not the one the president describeses a top-down cut taxes for the rich. that's not what i'm going to do. my plan has five basic parts one, get us energy independent, north america energy independent. that creates about four million jobs. open up more trade, particularly in the lain america, crack down on china, if and when they cheat. number three, make sure our people have the skills they need to succeed, and the best schools in the world. we're far away from that now. number 4, get us to a balanced budget. number five, champion small business. it's small business that creates the jobs in america, and over the last four years, small business people have decided that america may not be the place to open a new business because new business start-ups are down to a 30-year low. i know what it takes to get small business growing again, to hire people. now, i'm concerned that the path w
can you help us?" and the answer is yes, we can help, but it's going to take a different path, not the one we've been on, not the one the president describeses a top-down cut taxes for the rich. that's not what i'm going to do. my plan has five basic parts one, get us energy independent, north america energy independent. that creates about four million jobs. open up more trade, particularly in the lain america, crack down on china, if and when they cheat. number three, make sure our people...